Gobie DevLog 4 - Bringing It All Together
I’m very happy to say that the last of the generation capabilities I want to offer in the initial release of Gobie has been added to the alpha release.
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Gobie DevLog 3 - Simple C# Source Generation
In the last post about Gobie we looked at Class and Field templates along with formatting options. Today we can look at File templates.
Gobie DevLog 2 - Simple C# Source Generation
In the last post about Gobie I showed the first proof of concept. Today we have a bit of an expanded feature set to show which allows for simpler template de...
Gobie DevLog 1 - Simple C# Source Generation
In the last post about Gobie I outlined how a source generator which relies on user defined templates might work. In this post, I will briefly cover a proof ...
CS8618, Non-Nullable Parameters, and EditorRequired in Blazor
Using nullable reference types with Blazor can result in many CS8618 warnings from the complier, complaining that a component Parameter may be null. But that...
.Net 6: Managing Exceptions in BackgroundService or IHostedService Workers
This post applies to .Net 6 and after. DotNet 6 introduces a welcome change to exceptions which is discussed here. A full discussion of background service ex...
Simplifying C# Source Generation
I have been thinking a lot about source generation in recent weeks. Its promise of saving developers from some redundant coding is challenged by its complexi...
Use SQL Server Synonyms to Decouple Multi-Server or Multi-Database Queries
As with so many areas in software development, loose coupling is desired between apps, servers and databases. Loose coupling allows for server or database na...
Entity Framework Core Can Bypass Business Logic When Automatically Adding Missing Entity Relationships
As discussed in our last post, EFCore will add missing relationships between entities when they first become tracked or when they are saved to the database (...
Entity Framework Core Automatically Adds Missing Entity Relationships
Relationships in Entity Framework Core typically are represented by a pair of Navigation Properties. The parent in the relationship has a list of children, a...
2021 July Reading List
I decided to try taking a bit of inspiration from the Jo Walton’s Reading List series, who publicly keeps notes on books she has read. I won’t be tracking ev...
C# Source Generators - File New to NuGet
C# Source Generators are an exciting feature to allow automatic generation of code. Generators have been out of preview for several months, but getting start...
Stateless + Blazor = Easy Integration of UI and Business Logic
In this post we are going to look at how we can pair Stateless, a simple State Machine library for .Net with Blazor in order to take the pain out of synchron...
Branched Models and EFCore Performance
When we have a branched model like the one shown here that needs to be loaded by Entity Framework Core all at once, we need to consider the size of the model...
Managing Exceptions in BackgroundService or IHostedService Workers
This post applies to .Net 5 and before. .Net 6 introduces a welcome change to exceptions which is detailed here
Serve your github.io site from a subdomain, using Google Domains
Hosting your github.io site under a custom domain is a great option to make your project look more polished. This post will outline the steps to set up your ...
Experimenting With C# Source Generators - 1 Encapsulated Collections
Source Generators are a work in progress feature for Roslyn that will allow automatic generation of C# code based on existing code, or external files. From a...
Use Caution When Using Select with IEnumerable or IQueryable
I was recently caught off guard by the behavior of an IEnumerable produced by a Select statement. The code I was using looked a bit like what is shown below.
Easily Compare any SQL Server Queries or Tables
I’m excited to announce that this last week I have released a new project (source code), which is hosted here. Its a free utility that generates SQL Server s...
Auto Fix StyleCop Warnings with Free Extensions
If you are like me, you like the idea of StyleCop. It helps ensure your code is consistently organized and your diffs are smaller. But the fact is, with stan...
Snippets to Fix FxCop CA1062
If you run FxCop you may frequently run into CA1062: Validate arguments of public methods. Below are three snippets to make writing this boiler plate a bit e...
System Versioning 4 - Avoid No-Op Updates
When updating a row of data, SQL Server does not check if the new values and the old values are the same before performing the update. This often isn’t a con...
System Versioning 3 - Inter-Transaction Changes Are Not Recorded
In this post we will take another look at how transactions impact system versioned tables. There is exception to the rule that a system versioned table will ...
System Versioning 2 - Concurrent Transactions
In the second installment of this series we are going to look at how concurrent transactions behave differently with System Versioned tables, compared to sta...
System Versioning 1 - When is SysStart
System versioning was introduced in SQL Server 2016. Its an excellent option for logging changes to data in sensitive systems and as with all complex systems...